From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16771 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2013 14:35:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-prs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-prs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16737 invoked by uid 48); 3 Dec 2013 14:35:52 -0000 From: "tromey at redhat dot com" To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug python/16286] value.string(length = x) broken for common variable length arrays idiom Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:35:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gdb X-Bugzilla-Component: python X-Bugzilla-Version: HEAD X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: tromey at redhat dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-q4/txt/msg00503.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16286 Tom Tromey changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tromey at redhat dot com --- Comment #7 from Tom Tromey --- (In reply to dje from comment #4) > I recognize the problem, but error checking and clipping of the length needs > to be done in python before invoking value.string(). I'd rather we not advise users to do this. Instead gdb should do the throttling. lazy_string is intended to help with this problem; also perhaps some other fix is possible in the value printing code. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.